Software Engineer, Technical Lead

Position Overview:

Freddie Mac is seeking a Tech Lead to drive technical execution and engineering excellence for one or more agile delivery teams. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who partners closely with Development Leads, Product, Architecture, Platform/DevOps, and Security. 

You will help teams deliver modern, secure, cloud-based solutions by setting clear technical direction, breaking down complex problems, and ensuring software is built to be resilient, observable, and maintainable in production. 

Our Impact:

• Own technical direction for a feature area/service set, aligning implementation to product goals and architectural standards

• Lead design and architecture discussions for cloud-native services, integrations, and distributed systems; document decisions and trade-offs

• Drive technical alignment across developers, QA, product owners, and platform partners within an agile team environment

• Mentor engineers through execution (pairing, code reviews, design feedback) to improve consistency, maintainability, and delivery quality

• Serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues and production defects; lead root-cause analysis and remediation follow-through

• Translate requirements into technical plans (stories, tasks, acceptance criteria, and implementation approach) and help the team deliver iteratively

• Break down ambiguous problems into actionable work, identify dependencies, and proactively manage technical risks

• Promote predictable delivery by improving estimation inputs, reducing rework, and ensuring readiness for sprint execution

Your Impact:

• Champion code quality and standards including secure coding practices, testing discipline, and performance considerations

• Establish and reinforce testing strategies (unit, integration, end-to-end) and ensure automation is built into the SDLC

• Improve reliability and operability by ensuring services include appropriate monitoring, logging, alerting, and runbooks

• Continuously improve development practices through retrospectives, technical debt management, and refactoring plans

• Partner with Platform/DevOps teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code, and developer tooling

• Contribute to cloud architecture on AWS (or similar), ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and cost-aware

• Support production readiness including release planning, change management inputs, and post-deployment validation. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, related field or equivalent work experience; advanced studies/degree preferred

• 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering production-grade applications and services

• Demonstrated experience acting as a technical lead within agile teams (leading design, guiding implementation, and mentoring peers)

• Strong knowledge of modern architectures: microservices, event-driven systems, REST/GraphQL APIs, distributed systems fundamentals

• Cloud experience, particularly AWS (e.g., ECS/EKS, Lambda, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, CloudWatch; CloudFormation/CDK/Terraform)

• Strong SDLC skills: CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, branching strategies, and release practices

• Working knowledge of observability (metrics, logs, traces) and production support practices (incident triage, RCA)

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Keys to Success in this Role: 

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Experience modernizing legacy systems and/or supporting cloud migrations 

• Familiarity with security and compliance expectations in regulated environments (e.g., data protection, access controls, auditability)

• Experience with multiple languages/frameworks and a “best tool for the job” mindset